Have you ever wondered what Tofurious is about? I assure you that Tofurious is more than just some Asian guy who enjoys eating Chipotle. Read on, my friends. Read on.

To start, my name is Lawrence Chan and I am a wedding photographer. Interestingly enough, I didn’t start my career as a wedding photographer nor did I study it in college. Actually, I studied Political Science at UCLA because the topic of wars piqued my interest.

Anyway, like most wedding photographers, I start my story with a friend who asked, “Hey Lawrence, do you think you can shoot my wedding?”

“Are you serious? I’m not a pro or anything,” I answered. And I wasn’t lying; I just happened to have the slickest and most expensive DSLR of our little group because I liked gadgets.

“What if he misses a shot?” asked Nancy (Rob’s fiance).

What if I do miss a shot? I thought to myself.

“Don’t worry, Nancy,” I interrupted Rob’s train of thoughts.

“We can just pretend to do it again.” Later I learned this was taboo in our industry. You simply cannot miss a shot.

“Yeah, what he said,” Rob chuckled.

Wow! I was going to shoot a wedding! This is big league stuff! This was a major upgrade from shooting my cats.

I had a Canon Rebel XT with a Tamron 28-300mm lens. The salesperson told me that a 28-300mm lens would cover the whole range of photography. This made so much sense – 28mm covers wide and 300mm covers long. Little did I know it was a complete piece of poo poo.

One day before the wedding, I decided to upgrade and picked myself up a Canon 420EX flash and a 1GB memory card, which was a major improvement from my 128MB. Locked and loaded, I was ready for whatever the wedding day was going to throw at me.

Nancy and Rob had a Chinese tea ceremony at a beautiful temple. I was happily clicking away while the monks were chanting, the tea cups were being passed around, and the people were laughing and smiling.

Then it happened.

My memory card was full. I was like uh-oh. I thought I had planned for any obstacle, but this was definitely unforeseen. Nancy’s words of “What if he misses a shot?” echoed in my head.

Okay, stay calm Lawrence. Now, think…THINK! Before another second passed, I just stood up and shouted “STOP!” No joke, I really did.

first of all you’re on vacation and you shouldn’t be blogging. isn’t it like 16:00 there or something like that.
secondly, we need to properly interview you. i know you want someone to.
third, you are freakin funny
fourth, i have no idea what you did. borrowed a guests card, ran to rite aid and grabbed some disposable cameras, cried?

first of all you’re on vacation and you shouldn’t be blogging. isn’t it like 16:00 there or something like that.
secondly, we need to properly interview you. i know you want someone to.
third, you are freakin funny
fourth, i have no idea what you did. borrowed a guests card, ran to rite aid and grabbed some disposable cameras, cried?

Oh my… the worst is running out of memory or film (I shot two family weddings with film like 6 years ago & had to change out the film just before the KISS… that was stressful). Lawrence, thank you for your time released blog entries whilst you are away in Europe! This will surely be my morning entertainment!

Oh my… the worst is running out of memory or film (I shot two family weddings with film like 6 years ago & had to change out the film just before the KISS… that was stressful). Lawrence, thank you for your time released blog entries whilst you are away in Europe! This will surely be my morning entertainment!

Very interesting subject. I think most of us feel related to it. Excellent narrative! Can’t wait to read the next chapter (Is this going to be like “Twilight” ? = 4 Books? LOL) Anyway, I think you asked people to wait then download it to a laptop made some jokes about it to distract everybody then continue shooting.
By the way: Thank you for all your help, advice, comments, tips , etc. And especially for taking the time to do all this (even when you are on vacation) That’s why you are my heroe (Photo blogging speaking, of course!)